Product Manager - Tech (PMT), Live Events Optimizer — Amazon Ads, leet (Live Events Engineering Team)

Shape the future of live events advertising at Amazon. As a Senior Product Manager - Technical for Live Events Optimizer, you’ll own the end-to-end advertiser experience for our fastest-growing programmatic solution. You’ll transform how advertisers buy live sports and events inventory by driving intuitive UX, actionable reporting, and backend optimizations that ensure budgets are spent efficiently during peak moments. Partner with engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to balance technical sophistication with seamless user experiences—defining the next generation of live advertising at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
Own advertiser-facing experiences: Partner with UX design to transform complex live events workflows (pacing, forecasting) into intuitive, self-service interactions for campaign creation and management.
Define actionable reporting: Build performance dashboards that surface insights across sport, league, event, and deal dimensions, integrating with Amazon DSP’s broader reporting infrastructure.
Drive backend optimizations: Improve pacing algorithms, forecasting accuracy, and delivery reliability systems to ensure budgets are fully spent during high-value live moments.
Shape product strategy: Partner with senior leadership to prioritize roadmap items, translate strategic goals into requirements, and deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., advertiser satisfaction, budget delivery rates).
Voice of the Customer: Engage directly with advertisers, agencies, and sales teams to uncover pain points in campaign setup, delivery, and measurement.
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with engineering, applied science, design, sales, and go-to-market teams to align technical capabilities with business needs.
Validate through experimentation: Run A/B tests on UX flows and backend systems to iterate rapidly and improve advertiser outcomes.

A day in the life
We're building the next generation of advertising technology that transforms how brands connect with audiences during the moments that matter most. Our team combines deep ad tech expertise with a customer-first mindset, working collaboratively to solve complex technical challenges while keeping the advertiser experience at the center of everything we do. We're committed to creating products that balance sophistication with simplicity, enabling our customers to achieve their goals with confidence. As part of our group, you'll work alongside talented engineers, scientists, and designers who are passionate about innovation and committed to supporting each other's growth. Together, we're shaping the future of live events advertising and building products that our customers love.

About the team
As a Senior Product Manager - Technical for Live Events Optimizer, you'll focus on building intuitive, high-performing experiences that help advertisers discover, activate, and measure live events campaigns. Your day might include collaborating with UX Designers to simplify complex workflows into self-service interactions, diving deep into backend systems to understand pacing algorithms and forecasting models, or engaging directly with advertisers to understand their pain points in campaign setup and performance measurement. You'll balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution—defining reporting capabilities that surface actionable insights, evaluating engineering trade-offs to ensure scalable solutions, and running experiments to validate your product decisions. You'll also partner across Software Engineers, Applied Scientists, Sales, and Marketing teams to translate technical capabilities into seamless experiences that drive measurable business outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- 3+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- Experience with product cycles of 6+ months
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience as a product manager or owner
- Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in online or digital advertising
- Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
- Experience in selling programmatic or data-driven ad products or platforms
- Experience building measures and metrics, and developing reporting solutions
- Experience managing UX programs and working with Design and Research
- Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Santa Monica - 136,000.00 - 184,100.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 152,200.00 - 206,000.00 USD annually